From 1997 until 2000, Parker Bowles was a junior publicist for Dennis Davidson Associates public relations firm. He then co-founded Quintessentially, a high end concierge service, with his cousin Ben Elliot, Luca del Bono and film producer Aaron Simpson.

For the past 10 years, he has been a food writer and broadcaster with a weekly column in The Mail on Sunday. He has recently moved from being a Contributing Editor at GQ to being Food Editor at Esquire magazine.

His first book, published in 2004, was E Is For Eating – An Alphabet of Greed. His next, The Year of Eating Dangerously, was published by Ebury in October 2006. And his third, Full English; A Journey Through the British and Their Food was published in 2009 and won the Guild of Food Writers 2010 award for best work on British food. His next book, Let's Eat, is a compendium of his favourite recipes, collected from around the world, and written with the amateur cook in mind. It will be published in 2012 by Anova.

He also co-presented Market Kitchen on Good Food Channel from 2007 to 2010 and presented LBC Radio's Food and Drink Programme for a year.

He is Editor at Large of Pomp magazine and acts as consultant on a number of food related projects, including Heckfield Place, due to open in 2012.

On 10 September 2005, he married Sara Buys, a fashion features editor at Harpers & Queen who wore a dress designed by Sarah Burton, in St. Nicholas' Anglican Church in Rotherfield Grey, Oxfordshire. The wedding was attended by Andrew and Rosemary Parker Bowles (his father and stepmother), his mother and Charles, Prince of Wales, and Charles' sons, Prince William and Prince Harry. Ben Elliot (first cousin and business collaborator) was the best man of the groom.